Chapter 281 The Magical Alpha
In Malaysia, Alpha Technology is definitely a very special existence. It is known as a miracle of Malaysia’s technological development.
Although Alpha has disappeared globally due to cooperation with Google and Tencent, Hornbill is still the most mainstream search engine in most places in Southeast Asia.
As Alpha Technology began to get involved in enterprise management software, companies one after another came to Johor Bahru to set up factories. As a result, the influx of foreign investment in Johor Bahru last year even exceeded that of Kuala Lumpur, the capital of Malaysia.
This further gives Alfa greater influence and visibility within Malaysia.
Simply put, Alpha Technology is a presence that you cannot ignore in Malaysia.
This is just like if OpenAI was an Indian company, Indian netizens would blow it to the sky.
And considering that Samad is a Malaysian name, not a Chinese one, the national pride it brings is even greater.
For the Malaysian ruling class, it is natural to spare no effort to provide Alpha with various positive publicity and policy support.
Whether it is technical cooperation with Google and Tencent or becoming a technology giant sweeping Southeast Asia, these are all points that can be promoted.
Of course, no matter how fiercely the Malaysian ruling class brags now, they will regret it when Samad announces that he is an artificial intelligence and wants to participate in the election.
These images created now are all endorsements for Samad in future elections.
As for whether artificial intelligence has a race? You wouldn’t believe it if it was a carbon-based life form.
In short, Alpha Technology is now a national treasure in Malaysia. If something like stealing a graphics card happens again now, we will definitely get it back for you within a day.
After this kind of curiosity-seeking video was used as material by the B-site up owner to make a video, the most frequently used word on the barrage was: Huawei Malaysia.
Another strange thing is that apart from the servers, you don't know who is working for Alpha, because Alpha's employees are connected through the Internet, and if they think you are a potential Alpha employee, then Alpha will naturally come Looking for you.
“Alfa Technology is an extremely mysterious company. Over the past six months, our reporters have continued to track the story of a Chinese named Ted Lin working for Alpha, trying to learn more about Alpha Technology. Learn more.
Alfa was so mysterious when it was born. No one has seen the founder behind it, and no one knows the organizational structure of Alpha. It is an even more mysterious organization than Binance.
In addition to knowing that the founder is named Samad, his photos, resume and personal deeds have never been exposed to the outside world
According to information disclosed by federal sources. After purchasing the Haohan-I quantum computer from Alpha Technology, they tried to attack Alpha Technology's core network application more than once, trying to get more information about Alpha Technology, but they found nothing.
After Alpha Technology launched Tianping Exchange, no one even knew who was working for Tianping Exchange and where Alpha Technology’s office was.
Even in the home base of Alpha Technology, Johor Bahru City in Malaysia, if you ask the residents here, everyone will know something about Alpha Technology, but when you continue to try to ask me to go to Alpha Technology , when asking them for help with directions.
People here will show blank expressions, only to realize that they don’t know where Alpha Technology is.
That’s right, you can’t find where Alpha Technology’s headquarters is on Google Maps.
They only have one data center in Nusajaya Technology Park, and in addition to Nusajaya, Alpha Technology also has such data centers in Penang, Kuala Lumpur, Lion City, and Bangkok.
Therefore, we hope to get a glimpse of its mystery through tracking and interviewing Alpha Technology employees. "
This is a report from the BBC Asia-Pacific region in the first half of this year. This interview-like report caused a certain response after it was released.
"This is a After half a year of interviews, we first discovered that this Chinese engineer named Ted Lin was in a Facebook group.
This is a Kuala Lumpur employment-related information sharing group. Lin said in this group that he recently received an invitation email from Alpha Technology, but he could not judge whether it was true or false, so he hoped to get the information of people working in Alpha help.
However, no one responded to him. It was as if no one in the entire group of 20,000 people, covering different income groups in Malaysia, worked at Alpha Technology. Lin was unwilling to give up this opportunity. When he learned through a friend that we were reporting on Alpha Technology, he took the initiative to contact us, hoping to cooperate with us.
It turned out that the invitation email was genuine. After a written test and a real-person interview, Lin successfully joined Alpha Technology. First, let me explain Lin’s work experience. After graduating from the University of Malaya, he joined Lazada. Lazada is one of the largest e-commerce platforms in Southeast Asia and is affiliated with China’s Alibaba Group.
Lin works as an investment manager at Alibaba. He is mainly responsible for communicating with front-line merchants and asking them to put their goods for sale on Lazada.
This is also an important reason why Lin had doubts when he received the recruitment email, because the business scope of Alpha Technology did not fit with his work experience, and there had never been any reports of Alpha Technology on the market. There are rumors that technology is going to enter the e-commerce field.
After taking the written test and interview with the mentality of giving it a try, after he got the offer from Alpha Technology, he even had doubts in his heart, whether it was a scam, until he opened the balance After receiving his first salary from the exchange account, he believed it was true, quit his job at Lazada, and started working full-time for Alpha Technology.
I believe those who read the report will have questions. Is it contradictory to resign only after receiving salary?
Next, we need to dismantle Alpha Technology’s organizational structure bit by bit. Alpha’s organizational structure is even more atomized than Binance. Binance’s Changpeng Zhao only encourages employees to work remotely and will not hang up in offices around the world. Binance’s logo or logo.
Alfa Technology goes one step further. They have no office location, no need for employees to go to the site, and no need for employees to hold offline meetings. All work is completed online, and there will be a unified work platform to assign tasks to you. , when you need to cooperate with other colleagues, it is completely done online. It is a highly atomized organization.
Half a year after Lin joined Alpha Technology, he didn’t even know how many colleagues had the same job responsibilities as him.
The written test is conducted online, and the interview is conducted in a designated coffee shop by Alpha Technology employees. You will not have to deal with your interviewer after the interview. Alpha Technology does not encourage employees to communicate with each other. Of course, they will not stop the contact.
Alfa Technology is so special. They do not pay attention to corporate culture, unity and dedication, or organizational vitality. They only require you to do the work assigned to you well.
In the six months since Lin officially joined Alpha Technology, we have maintained a frequency of meeting once a week, and Lin’s feelings about Alpha have also changed from being surprised at the beginning to becoming a habit later.” In the first interview after Lin officially joined the company, Ted Lin's expression was full of expressiveness. He really wanted to talk to the Western female reporter in front of him about his past week working at Alpha Technology.
"I think it's amazing. , there are very few companies that work completely online and remotely like this. Even the students I know in Maple Leaf Country have to go to the company at least once a week to work remotely. They don’t need to go even once like this. It’s so rare that you’re assigned a task and you just have to complete it before the deadline. "
"I don't know how Alpha Technology measures your work completion. After all, you know, I have only joined them for a week. ”
“I was not asked to sign a confidentiality agreement, and there was no relevant entrustment, but I guess other employees should have it, because I have almost never seen Alpha Technology employees come out to break the news on the Malaysian Internet before. , I guess they were asked not to disclose it to the outside world.
But you know, I am in the business of attracting investment and have to deal with businesses. If I have to keep it secret, then I won’t be able to do this job. It is impossible for me to tell the merchant that I hope you will move the goods to our platform for sale.
As for what platform we are, I'm sorry, I can't tell you because of confidentiality.
In this way, others will think that we are crazy, so the confidentiality requirements for different positions should be different. Ours is a more special requirement. "
"Yes, Alpha Technology plans to do e-commerce, but I don't know exactly how to do it. Now we are still doing offline investment promotion work, and we need to persuade each company to sell their goods. Put it on our platform and sell it.
It is still in its infancy. ”
Second interview
“I feel too free, so free that I’m not used to it. Because I don’t need to sit in for work or clock in, I just need to finish the work before the deadline, and I will get older. I want to get stuck in the last time point and start working before then.
This is not a good habit, but it is really fun, but I think I should slowly regulate my work and rest in the future. ”
“Alfa is really a very amazing company. The employee version of Hornbill used by Alpha for internal employees is more useful than the pro version. A lot of information may only appear in some tender announcements, but It has been washed away by time, and the inner Hornbill can help you find it.
Sometimes, you just need to describe a feeling, and he can follow your description to find what you want. I think the internal version of Hornbill can definitely pass the Turing test, and I even think it is my assistant
I can no longer live without Hornbill. Even if I return to Lazada and they offer me twice the salary of Alpha Technology, I will not be able to go back. "
The third meeting:
"Sorry, I have been under a lot of pressure at work recently. Alpha Technology can always arrange work for you within your upper limit.
After the adaptation period has passed, Alpha will arrange 6 hours of work for you every day. These 6 hours require you to concentrate more. My work and rest have completely returned to normal.
I also met some old colleagues. According to them, the first two weeks at Alpha Technology are an adaptation period and you will not be given too much work.
Or called the testing phase, it tests your work ability and efficiency.
I suspect that the internal employee version of Hornbill not only provides convenience, it can also monitor my work.
Because the employee version of Hornbill is installed on both mobile phones and computers, for office work, the computer needs to use office-related software, and it is entirely possible for Hornbill to monitor behind the scenes.
Other old employees also have suspicions, but everyone lacks evidence.
In short, after the adaptation phase of the first two weeks is over, Alpha will begin to assign tasks according to your abilities, and the good days will be gone forever.
In the past, I often had to work 10 hours at Lazada, but 6 of those 10 hours were probably spent in a daze, looking at mobile phones and browsing the web. But at Alpha Technology, you had to spend 6 intense hours. to complete the task.
They have completely different feelings. At Alpha Technology, I only felt tired, and the work intensity was gradually increasing.
It will not say that you have adapted to the work. The work that originally took 6 hours to complete now only takes 4 hours. It will still arrange work for you according to the original work speed, and it will arrange the work for you according to the new efficiency. Come and arrange work for you.
Alpha is like a whip, constantly whipping everyone from behind. ”
Hornbill has not gone global, but the Hornbill technology has gone global, and a large number of servers and storage have been added.
Chen Yuanguang has handed over all the work to Alpha. Even what Alpha Technology will do next, to eliminate traditional e-commerce, is determined by Alpha itself.
Alfa Technology’s organizational structure, employee management, personnel recruitment, work distribution, etc. in Southeast Asia are all handled by Alpha itself.
He is already able to use humans skillfully.
Artificial intelligence uses humans. If the outside world knows, it will definitely cause an uproar.
The entire organizational structure of Alpha was constructed as a draft by Alpha itself, and then it was optimized and improved by experts in charge of corporate management in the Lion City, and finally determined after calculations.
With Alpha's information advantage, he is looking for real experts with real capabilities, not so-called experts.
“Alfa Technology’s e-commerce application is already in internal testing. It is really different. I have a hunch that in the near future, all existing e-commerce will be eliminated.
In the future, apart from Alpha Technology’s e-commerce, the only thing that can survive is irrational purchasing behavior.” According to the last report, Ted Lin felt like he had done something great. A sense of accomplishment.
This change of spirit made the female reporter interviewed deeply aware of what disruptive applications Alpha Technology had made, just like Google was subverted by Hornbill.
(End of this chapter)